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3 limitations of PMBOK and how to overcome them

PMBOK is one of the world’s most popular project management approaches but it still has its limitations, writes J Jameson. Here are three issues and how to overcome them.

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Skills shortages in construction projects have become a catalyst for innovative ways of doing things, from digitisation of the sector to new forms of collaboration, writes Rob Bryant.

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Can project managers succeed at complexity?

The hardest projects used to be about leading-edge engineering in harsh conditions. These days the complexity comes from, among other things, the diversity of stakeholders and the chance of decisions being revisited, writes Kieran Duck.

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Managing the hybrid workplace

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A project manager’s guide to digital transformation

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The increasing need for project managers in the legal sector

The demand for project managers in the legal industry has surged. Dee Tamlin explains what is required as a legal project manager.

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BIM and the modern project manager

Building information modelling (BIM) has the potential to transform project management, given that it brings never-before-seen efficiency. Here is Anna Liza Montenegro on how it will affect the modern project manager.

August 11, 2021

Managing infrastructure projects of the future

With major infrastructure spending comes the need to manage the benefits post-project. David Jenkins argues that a commitment of this size needs to be matched by an investment in the training of the professionals who will bring these projects to reality, and safely.

August 5, 2021

Why technology is the path to project recovery

While COVID-19 restrictions have caused construction project delays, they have also accelerated digital transformation. Rob Bryant of InEight discusses how technology can be the solution to project recovery.

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Improve Performance Through Reflective Practice and Knowledge Sharing In Project Management—Shan He

Improve Performance Through Reflective Practice and Knowledge Sharing In Project Management
It becomes increasingly crucial for organisations to make improvement in such a competitive environment. Being adaptive to the changing market can be acquired through enhancing competence of organisation members and improving the collaboration of whole organisation. Therefore, reflective practice can be perceived as an efficient and simple approach for either organisation or individual to promote performance improvement and learning process while knowledge sharing can provide an easy access for members to exchange knowledge information and make improvement.

This paper will focus on how reflective practice and knowledge sharing enable organisation to improve performance and learning. Reflective practice can be applied through many tools and techniques, which need to be tailored within different organisational context. With respect to knowledge sharing, the most challenging aspect is the process of converting tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge, where can create a collaborative and dynamic environment for organisation to make improvement. There will be a project case that author involved with during working experience to illustrate how the project was managed using reflective practice tools while advantages, problems, lessons learnt are identified through the application of reflective journals. An improved outcome will
be demonstrated if the ‘Gibbs reflective cycle’ could have been applied into the project.

Through the reflection analysis of the project case, it is found that reflection becomes effective when applying theory into practice and knowledge sharing can bring an improved outcome. In organisation, learning to make improvement comes effectively from reflecting on experience.

Author: Shan He
Review status: Postgraduate assignment (University of Technology Sydney)

December 13, 2015